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Definition of Eunuchs
1. eunuch [n] - See also: eunuch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eunuchs
Literary usage of Eunuchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"That the psyche of eunuchs differs materially from that of normal men, there can
be no doubt eunuchs lack the courage, and the capacity for passion and for ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"The use of eunuchs is of high antiquity, both in Asia and Egypt. ... The Greek
appellation of eunuchs, which insensibly prevailed. had a milder sound and a ..."
3. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"41 : Itì. women, and the children, and the eunuchs, 02:20. He took also out of
the city a» eunuch, Dan. 1: 3. unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, 7. ..."
4. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"Among the number of the children that were carried away in this captivity by the
master of the eunuchs, were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.4 Daniel ..."
5. China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of by John Otway Percy Bland, Edmund Backhouse (1914)
"... eunuchs ONE of the facts upon which modern Chinese historians, Censors, Imperial
Tutors and Guardians of the Heir Apparent have repeatedly laid stress, ..."
6. Expository Notes, with Practical Observations, on the New Testament by William Burkitt (1844)
"say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for for- away your
wires; but from the II made themselves eunuchs for the beginning it was not ..."
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